László Trócsányi (born 6 March 1956) is a Hungarian lawyer, academic, diplomat, politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019.

[9][10] As Minister, he initiated legislations that the Juncker Commission brought to the European Court of Justice to scrutinize whether they harmonize with the EU laws or not.

Among the norms introduced during his tenure were the criminalization of NGOs providing legal assistance to asylum seekers, the amendments to the higher education law that made the Central European University relocate its headquarters from Budapest, and the norms that created legal environment for establishing border transit camps where asylum seekers are detained before a decision is made about whether they are allowed into the country or not.

With Trócsányi's approval, Hungary chose to extradite two Russian arms-dealers who had previously arrested in a joint operation of the US and Hungarian police, to Russia rather than to the US.

[15] Von der Leyen defended the choice stating that Hungary's objectives "are clear regarding the integration of the Western Balkans, which are in line with the political agenda of the new European Commission".

[17] The JURI committee sent a letter with its decision on the potential conflict of interest on the 26 September to the president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, adopted by 11 votes to 9 stating that his personal finances in connection with his law firm, he founded before becoming Minister of Justice and due to concerns - without presenting a court judgement or any official document - in relation to extradition of Russian suspects to Russia based on a court judgement[18] during his time as the Hungarian minister of justice.

[19][20] President Sassoli, however, asked for clarification on the matter and decided, that in this form, the suggestion of the JURI committee was not based on proper evidence and the decision had to be clarified.

[22] The JURI committee - not being able to give a justified recommendation - issued a letter rejecting his nomination with 12 votes to 9 on 30 September 2019 and stating that the candidate is unable to fill the position of commissioner designate due to a possible conflict of interest"[23] - still not based on evidence.

[25] Francois-Xavier Bellamy, French member of the European Parliament stated that the procedure against László Trócsányi was "politically and ideologically motivated" and that it was completely against the law and against the mission of the JURI committee.

He believes that the issue of migration is decisive, "because it affects the composition of the population of the country, and therefore the type of society in which we will live, not only today but in twenty years.